| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Nouri al-Maliki |
Head of State |
c. 1950 |
|
Prime Minister of Iraq |
| Benigno Aquino |
Politician |
27-Nov-1932 |
21-Aug-1983 |
Philippine opposition leader |
| Reinaldo Arenas |
Novelist |
16-Jul-1943 |
7-Dec-1990 |
El Mundo Alucinante |
| Abu Bakar Bashir |
Terrorist |
17-Aug-1938 |
|
Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah |
| Lavrenty Beria |
Government |
29-Mar-1899 |
23-Dec-1953 |
Chief of the NKVD, 1940-46 |
| Alexander Blok |
Poet |
16-Nov-1880 |
7-Aug-1921 |
Russian Silver Age poet |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1877 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Zviad Gamsakhurdia |
Head of State |
31-Mar-1939 |
31-Dec-1993 |
First elected President of Georgia |
| Terry George |
Film Director |
20-Dec-1952 |
|
Hotel Rwanda |
| Vo Nguyen Giap |
Military |
25-Aug-1911 |
|
North Vietnamese General, Minister of Defense |
| Xanana Gusmão |
Head of State |
20-Jul-1946 |
|
President of East Timor, 2002-07 |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Ann Lee |
Religion |
29-Feb-1736 |
8-Sep-1784 |
Mother Ann, Founder of the Shakers |
| Maxim Litvinov |
Government |
17-Jul-1876 |
31-Dec-1951 |
Soviet foreign minister, ousted in nod to Hitler |
| Giuseppe Mazzini |
Activist |
22-Jun-1805 |
10-Mar-1872 |
Italian patriot, agitator |
| Stjepan Mesic |
Head of State |
24-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Croatia |
| Oswald Mosley |
Politician |
16-Nov-1896 |
3-Dec-1980 |
Founder of the British Union of Fascists |
| Kgalema Motlanthe |
Head of State |
19-Jul-1949 |
|
Deputy President of South Africa |
| Robert Mugabe |
Head of State |
21-Feb-1924 |
|
President of Zimbabwe |
| Raila Odinga |
Head of State |
7-Jan-1945 |
|
Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Jafar Panahi |
Film Director |
11-Jul-1960 |
|
The White Balloon |
| Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
Novelist |
20-Feb-1925 |
30-Apr-2006 |
The Fugitive |
| Kim Young Sam |
Head of State |
20-Dec-1927 |
|
President of South Korea, 1993-98 |
| Hussain al-Shahristani |
Government |
1942 |
|
Iraqi Minister of Oil |
| Franjo Tudjman |
Head of State |
14-May-1922 |
11-Dec-1999 |
First President of Croatia |
| Robert Vesco |
Criminal |
4-Nov-1935 |
23-Nov-2007 |
Fugitive financier |
| Liu Xiaobo |
Activist |
28-Dec-1955 |
|
Chinese human rights activist |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
